Timeline of digital art in Malta

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This is a timeline of digital art in Malta. It was created in combination with the research exhibition Remembering the Future: Digital Art in Malta (1989-2019) curated by Vince Briffa and Toni Sant for DRHA 2018, held at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta in September 2018.

In essence, in this a working list and not intended as a comprehensive timeline of digital art in Malta. It stems from a research project intended to capture as many memories as possible of digital art created and/or presented in Malta over time.

1970's

1976/1977

  • Folji by the artist Caesar Attard is a gestetner printed itinerary/ visual newsletter issued by the art group Vision 74 which was meant to be an experiment in decentralised participation and which encouraged and promoted member involvement and interaction.

1980s

The earliest digital art in Malta arguably appeared in the form of MIDI and electronic synthesizer compositions. Collecting this is potentially a separate timeline in itself.

1989

1990s

ASCII art was certainly present in Malta during the 1990s, especially after the introduction of domestic internet access in 1996. There are no known works of ASCII art from Malta that have been preserved.

1997

1998

  • Larger Than Life I by the artist Norbert Francis Attard is the first part of an installation where he uses video created through digital means, which is integrated into this piece with a relative ease previously unknown except to broadcast professionals.

1999

  • Larger Than Life II by the artist Norbert Francis Attard is the first part of an installation where he uses video created through digital means, which is integrated into this piece with a relative ease previously unknown except to broadcast professionals.
  • Hermes is a video of 16 minutes, by the artist Vince Briffa.

2000's

2003

  • Metawarphosis by the artist Norbert Francis Attard is a 2 minutes digital animation video, the first by a Maltese artist to utilise Flash technology to create animation sequence.

2005

2007

2008

  • Minn Fejn Int? Video, translated to Where are you from?, by the artist Norbert Francis Attard is a 3 minutes video that involved the use of digital photography to enable visual art on a scale that was previously more cumbersome and time consuming to produce.

2009

2010's

2012

2017

2018